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Frugal innovation in medicine for low resource settings

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, July 2016
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Title
Frugal innovation in medicine for low resource settings
Published in
BMC Medicine, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0651-1
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Viet-Thi Tran, Philippe Ravaud

Abstract

Whilst it is clear that technology is crucial to advance healthcare: innovation in medicine is not just about high-tech tools, new procedures or genome discoveries. In constrained environments, healthcare providers often create unexpected solutions to provide adequate healthcare to patients. These inexpensive but effective frugal innovations may be imperfect, but they have the power to ensure that health is within reach of everyone. Frugal innovations are not limited to low-resource settings: ingenuous ideas can be adapted to offer simpler and disruptive alternatives to usual care all around the world, representing the concept of "reverse innovation". In this article, we discuss the different types of frugal innovations, illustrated with examples from the literature, and argue for the need to give voice to this neglected type of innovation in medicine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 191 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 34 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 12%
Student > Bachelor 19 10%
Researcher 18 9%
Other 13 7%
Other 39 20%
Unknown 46 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 29 15%
Engineering 21 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 7%
Social Sciences 10 5%
Other 30 16%
Unknown 48 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 November 2021.
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#1,762,048
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,240
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#31,798
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#15
of 43 outputs
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